Single Idea 19658

[catalogued under 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism]

Full Idea

Once the absolute has become unthinkable, even atheism, which also targets God's inexistence in the manner of an absolute, is reduced to a mere belief, and hence to a religion, albeit of the nihilist kind.

Gist of Idea

Now that the absolute is unthinkable, even atheism is just another religious belief (though nihilist)

An interesting claim. Rather hard to agree or disagree, though the idea that atheism must qualify as a religion seems odd. If it is unqualified it does have the grand quality of a religion, but if it is fallibilist it just seems like an attitude.